Jonah Hex #12

Jonah Hex finds himself in a desperate, swamp-soaked situation on Jim Starlin's cover for this 1978 DC issue — the scarred bounty hunter is being hurled bodily through the air above a lurking alligator, while a bare-chested opponent delivers the throw and a grizzled onlooker watches from the background. The taunting speech bubble — "Yuh almost beat me, Hex… but 'almost' only counts with pitchin' horseshoes and shootin' shotguns!" — perfectly sets the gritty, wry tone of "The Search for 'Gator Hawes!" inside, brought to life by writer Michael Fleisher and artist Vicente Alcázar.